well, one of the files you will have to change is /etc/sysconfig/network the hostname is defined there.. and define it in hosts and assign its IP there...
Think that would do it... There may be more then that, thats just off the top of my head... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of skidley Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2001 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] hostname On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: > There's nothing in hosts that says anything about a hostname. This is > the only thing in my hosts file: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > Sure there is it says your hostname is localhost.localdomain. But I don't believe that is where you set your hostname as I recall. I remember changing my hostname and having to change the hostname in /etc/hosts so that X would work correctly. Just use the command hostname as root -- Linux User #195191
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